Preview — Changes And Chances
by Doreen Eileen Agnew Wallace

Changes And Chances

by Dora Eileen Agnew Rash, otherwise known by her pen name, Doreen Wallace.

Doreen Wallace's gifts as a writer have been recognised the world over and by many distinguished critics, among them Howard Spring who, quite early in her career, called her 'so good a novelist that she has most of her contemporaries licked to a frazzle.' Above all, she has excelled in the depictionby Dora Eileen Agnew Rash, otherwise known by her pen name, Doreen Wallace.

Doreen Wallace's gifts as a writer have been recognised the world over and by many distinguished critics, among them Howard Spring who, quite early in her career, called her 'so good a novelist that she has most of her contemporaries licked to a frazzle.' Above all, she has excelled in the depiction of country life, particularly of life in those localities where she has lived herself - East Anglia and Cumberland. Married to a farmer, she has always been able to drawn on her own experiences for the extraordinary vivid characterisation, atmosphere and setting of her books.

In Changes and Chances, she gives her admirers something new, a volume of seven absorbing stories. in a preface she writes: 'They are all bits of experience, mine or something else's. I always like to tell what I know of the truth if it will make a good story. I seldom trust imagination on its own - I have sen it fall down too often. There is one thing common to all the stories: they are about the changes and chances of our mortal life. What other subject is there?'

the seven stories were each written at a different period and vary in length as they do in setting, but they all have one thing in common: each is a pleasure to read....more

Community Reviews

Some rather dark tales here , confronting harsh realities of life, often with a tragic twist. A strong feminist viewpoint comes through most, highlighting many of the problems women have faced through the ages - such as the dogged pursuit of independence, or the difficulty of making and keeping a stable marriage in an unequal society.